FOR YOU TO KNOW

Name Origin Of These Companies

Adobe

came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache

It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache .

Apple Computers

The favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs.

He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.

CISCO

its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.

Google

The name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders, Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’ .

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages.

It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

HP

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trade marked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘ The LotusPosition’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation

(TM-by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

Microsoft

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICRO Computer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle

(acronym for: One Real ******* Called Larry Ellison)

Red Hat

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap. (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grand father. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone !

SAP

“Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects”.

SUN

founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Xerox

The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say ‘dry’ (asit was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).

The Greek root ‘xer’ means dry.

Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.

Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

CHANAKYA QUOTES

“Before you start some work, always ask yourself

Three questions -
Why am I doing it ?,
What the results might be ? and Will I be successful ?

Only when you think deeply
and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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How to think BIG and become RICH

Everybody want to become rich overnight, but rarest of rare become rich that way. To become rich, you need to think rich, it’s same way when you are low in confidence, you tend to think nothing will your way and you stop trying and really nothing come your way. In a nutshell you don’t try and you get nothing and next you try and try hard you will get everything sooner or latter.

But the moot question is how think BIG and become RICH. Following are 10 suggestions for you to follow.

1. Be proactive. Never wait for a thing to happen, make happen.
2. Think win-win. Always think about victory, never think about defeat.
3. When you met some problem, don’t shy away instead face it squarely, always hold bull by it’s horn.
4. Whenever you come across a position when you needs to spend more, do not try to cut expenses instead
try to raise your income.
5. Do not procrastinate. Be active physically and mentally.
6. Procrastination create fears, Action recedes fear.
7. Expect great thing out of yourself, always take pride in yourself.
8. Listening is a art, be a deft hearer.
9. Realize power of promise, never ever try to induce somebody by promising falsely.
10. Last but not least. Nothing comes for FREE, work hard and work honestly.

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PERIODIC TABLE- NEW DESIGN

i have found an intresting site where this periodictable is sown:- To see, vist this link

>>http://i.gizmodo.com/5169466/the-periodic-table-of-typefaces

This sits beautifully nestled in my science geek and design geek

Venn overlap quadrant: a good place to be.

Designers Squidspot created the table, with fonts arranged roughly into related group columns showing (although Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica not being in the same family! Ok, I'll stop).

They've also ranked each roughly according to popularity according to a number of sources.
It's really cool to see who designed which typeface and when, and where everything falls in the popularity queue. [Periodic Table of Typefaces (full-res JPG) by Squidspot via Lifehacker]

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